TechSpot
DECEMBER 12, 2020
As a corporation, it's Nvidia's prerogative to decide on the reviewers it chooses to collaborate with. However, this and other related incidents raise serious questions around journalistic independence and what they are expecting of reviewers when they are sent products for an unbiased opinion. As an independent tech publication, we've.
Gizmodo
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Disney World will reportedly stop “enhancing” on-ride photos by pasting digital face masks onto maskless park guests. And no, you aren’t reading the Onion. It’s 2020, baby, where reality is so much of a joke at this point that headlines and punchlines are literally synonymous. Read more.
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GeekWire
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Seattle angel investor Charles Fitzgerald, pictured here at the 2019 GeekWire Cloud Summit, is our guest commentator on this week’s GeekWire Podcast. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). This week on the GeekWire Podcast: How the antitrust case against Facebook could impact the rest of the tech industry; the state of Seattle as “Cloud City”; and first impressions of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband service from a user of the company’s “Better Than Nothing Bet
TechSpot
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 is visually stunning and possibly the most graphically impressive game we've ever seen. Ray tracing elevates the game's visuals and provides a noticeable improvement, so it's time to test how your GPU performs with DLSS and ray tracing enabled.
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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella holds a Kookaburra cricket ball given to him by GeekWire Editor Todd Bishop at the 2017 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong). Startup founders and tech giant CEOs are putting money behind cricket teams and leagues, betting that the sport will continue growing in popularity — even in the U.S., where it has struggled to gain a foothold.
TechSpot
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Early in his tenure as a professor, Abramson was tasked with finding a way of transferring data between Hawaiian islands and the United States using radio technology. From this initial project, he went on to create ALOHAnet – an early wireless network which contributed to the development of modern wireless.
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TechSpot
DECEMBER 12, 2020
In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, Oracle said it has moved its corporate headquarters from Redwood City, California to Austin, Texas and has implemented a more flexible employee work location policy. The changes, the company said, will provide personnel with more flexibility with regard.
The Verge
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Image: CD Projekt Red. It’s a different kind of Cyber week. Cyber Monday is in the past, but the anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 game has finally launched, and it’s almost impossible to avoid seeing buzz about it online. One of this week’s best deals is aimed right at people who don’t have a console or a beastly gaming PC. The game is available on Google Stadia, and until supplies last, Google is offering a complimentary hardware bundle worth $100 to people who buy Cyberpunk 2077 on its cloud game st
TechSpot
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Gizmodo found that out of five thousand randomly sampled public schools and school districts, eight admitted to purchasing MDFTs (mobile device forensics tools) on their public budget reports. Schools are not always required to itemize their budgets, so it's likely that these are just a fraction of the schools that.
The Verge
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Giant AR cat is giant | Google. Google has added 50 new augmented reality animals to Search which can be either cute, or in the case of the giant cat in the photo above, a bit disconcerting. Of course it’s possible that I find the giant kitty menacing because I hate fun (or so I have been told), but I do not think I want that creature to greet me, anywhere, ever, in AR or any other reality.
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
TechSpot
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Back on N7 Day, Bioware studio head Casey Hudson confirmed that a team consisting of many of the original Mass Effect crew was working on a new game in the series. He also announced that a remaster of the trilogy was in the pipe.
Gizmodo
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Ever since I was young, I’ve always been a cat fan (although dogs are lovely, too). Nonetheless, my current landlord doesn’t allow me to have a cat, so I just settle for following cute ones on Instagram. Considering that I live alone, there have been many times during the pandemic where I’ve thought, “Wouldn’t this be… Read more.
TechSpot
DECEMBER 12, 2020
The Last of Us Part II ended up as top dog at this year's Game Awards, winning seven of its 10 nominations, including Game of the Year. No other game came even close to taking home that many awards. Second place in award count was a three-way tie between Final.
Gizmodo
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Christopher Nolan has, uhh, he’s made some mistakes. Is the actual construction of Tenet one of them? Pretty soon we’re all going to get a chance to find out. Read more.
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TechSpot
DECEMBER 12, 2020
In an email addressed to staff and obtained by Bloomberg, CDPR studio head Adam Badowski took responsibility for Cyberpunk 2077's turbulent release. The email, which was sent out Friday, said that the employees would receive bonus checks regardless of the game's reception.
Gizmodo
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Nearly two years after its last flight, Virgin Galactic—the space tourism venture founded by Richard Branson, another billionaire who loves space—aborted the scheduled test launch of its SpaceShipTwo commercial aircraft into suborbital space today because of an issue with its rocket motor. Read more.
TechSpot
DECEMBER 12, 2020
While no card names appear on the document, Laptopvideo2go cross-referenced the IDs using the public PCI ID list to discover some of the entries. It seems that the device ID, NVIDIA_DEV.2205, is a reference to the GA102. Videocardz reports that other pieces of software have also tied the 2205.
Gizmodo
DECEMBER 12, 2020
When Tesla released its Cybertruck, it made a splash because it was certainly a different look to, well, pretty much anything we see on the market today. With futuristic, inorganic lines and sharp panels, it’s the kind of car you’re either going to love or hate. And automotive designer Frank Stephenson… isn’t a big… Read more.
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TechSpot
DECEMBER 12, 2020
The plant in question is based in Narasapura and is operated by Wistron, a Taiwan-based company which manufactures iPhones at the facility. A significant majority of the plant’s 2,000 workers are said to have engaged in the mass riot, which involved destroying assembly units and setting fire to vehicles.
Gizmodo
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Look at them. They’re gay. (Well, Princess Bubblegum is bi, if we’re being exact.) Good for them. Read more.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 12, 2020
GeekWire Illustration. How would you feel if you were a homeowner and woke up one morning to find people on a new sidewalk on your property, seemingly with no warning? Would you feel any differently if you also learned that a sidewalk you use every day had appeared on a friend’s property in the same way, seemingly with no warning? This, in essence, is the situation many Amazon customers find themselves in as Amazon begins automatically enabling Sidewalk on devices like Amazon Echo.
Gizmodo
DECEMBER 12, 2020
A sale on Alienware peripherals and a 70-inch 4K Sharp AQUOS tv lead Saturday’s best deals. Read more.
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The Verge
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Happy Saturday and welcome to the inaugural edition of the Verge Weekender, a short recap of some of the stories we covered this week on The Verge. The big event of the week was Disney’s investor day, where the company announced new Disney Plus series WandaVision , showed trailers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the much-anticipated series Loki ; as well as slew of new Star Wars series on Disney Plus, including Rangers of the New Republic, Ahsok
Gizmodo
DECEMBER 12, 2020
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The Verge
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro. It looked like Twitter was adding further restrictions to President Trump’s Twitter account on Saturday, as some users noticed the ability to like, retweet or reply to his tweets with “disputed” labels was not working. Copying the URL to one of the disputed tweets also appeared to be disabled, and quote-tweets were not appearing in search results.
Gizmodo
DECEMBER 12, 2020
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Gizmodo
DECEMBER 12, 2020
What many might have hailed as Twitter setting an example by restricting engagement with President Donald Trump’s misleading and incredulous tweets about his election loss was, according to the company, an accident. Hold your fanfare. The company has since reversed course, fully restored engagement to Trump’s tweets,… Read more.
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